Hussein's vice president sentenced to death

Taha Yassin Ramadan, Saddam Hussein's vice president, has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity. "The condemned Taha Yassin Ramadan shall be sentenced to hanging until death for committing deliberate killing crimes," Judge Ali al-Kahachi said, after the Iraqi High Tribunal met to review an earlier life sentence.

"This is in accordance to the higher criminal court and the penal court law," the judge added, according to AFP. Following the verdict, Ramadan shouted Monday: "I swear to God I am innocent. May God support me. May God take revenge against everyone who rendered me injustice."

Head stay on? head fall off? it's all so gripping!!